I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Quotations
Music
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
